Who Shows Up to a Tennis Tournament with 2 Black Eyes? Marat Safin That's Who

Marat Safin has always been one of my favorite tennis players. He's a supreme talent who is entirely unpredictable and filled with spontaneous rage. He can play phenomenally and demolish the competition or he can pull down his pants mid match because he's pissed off or hit the line judge and jovially give her a kiss. You never what you're going to see when you watch Safin. So when a tennis player showed up at the Aussie Open warm up in Perth with two black eyes, could it have been anybody other than Safin?

"I got in trouble in Moscow but it's OK, I can survive,'' Safin said.
"Just some small problem that I wasn't in the right place at the right time.
"Yes, I won the fight. I'm good, I'm OK.'' (Perth Now)

Unfortunately, Safin's journey at the Aussie Open ended this morning at the hands of Roger Federer. The Fed Express dispatched Safin with relative ease in three sets. Unfortunately for Safin, the Aussie Open is played in front of a massive crowd and not an alley way in Moscow where the results would have been considerably different.

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M E T S = Mercifully End The Season

Do it before David Wright gets Hurt!

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Lou Holtz is the Homer / Annoyingly Delusional

As my buddy Joe and I always joke, if Notre Dame was suiting up against an all Jesus team, aka a team made up of 55 Sons of God, Lou Holtz would probably still pick Notre Dame to win by a touchdown. So of course this weekend when I'm watching Sportscenter and they have him and fellow old man Corso making predictions, Lou picks ND to beat Michigan. Not that big of a deal, Michigan is a big question mark this year, but of course than Lou says that Notre Dame will win 11 games this year. This is the same Notre Dame that lost to a service academy last year. And just when you thought the douchy homerism was going to end ESPN asks which BCS school is going to be the biggest surprise team in the country. Any guesses to whom it was? I'll give you a clue it was another team he coached. If you guessed South Carolina you would be a winner. Next up on Lou's prediction watch, the Jets win the Superbowl, NC St. wins the ACC, Arkansas dominates the SEC West, Minnesota wins the Big...

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Guest Post: Thoughts on Sabathia Signing

I asked Grutt what his thoughts were on the Sabathia signing and I thought his response pretty much nailed it. So here it is. I don’t know. Every year I get a little more disenchanted with baseball. Yea, it’s great we signed the top pitching free agent. But we were supposed to. No team was even in the ballpark of the Yankees offer yet they still needed to jump from the already ridiculous price of $140 million to $160 million to close the deal. Now I hear we are going to sign more pitchers who will also get large contracts and the position player gaps are still glaring. Each new, large contract just adds to the feeling that the Yanks are supposed to win it all. “I think we have a good chance this year.” That is a lost feeling. If they don’t win I’ll wonder why, like there has to be some other reason besides that it’s a sport you can never predict how things will work out and some years just aren’t yours to be won. If they win I will be pleasantly smug. It gets a little more...

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